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TIL that George Washington ordered the entire Continental Army inoculated against smallpox despite popular resistance to the practice

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78gPL TIL that the Romans used urine as a cleaning agent
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4XNeX TIL: 18 Patients with drug-resistant malaria were cured by a not-yet-approved malaria therapy made only from the dried leaves of the Artemisia annua plant. In just five days, all 18 people fully recovered.